Mouse Cleaning Tips

The mouse is the most commonly used pointing device in windows environment on the personal computers. That is why mouse required extra care as compare to the other parts of the computer. You should clean your mouse when you feel the mouse is slow to move in different directions or making some strange movements.

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First disconnect your mouse from the back side of the computer.
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Now read the mouse manufacturer manual about your mouse model on how to safe and clean it.
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Open the ball cover from the back side of the mouse and wash the ball then dry it with cloth.
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Now clean dust in the inner side of the mouse specially removes the dust on the rollers with lightly dampened cotton bud. You can use the compressed air for this purpose.
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At the end dry it and Re-assemble your mouse then connect with computer.

Motherboard Cleaning Tips

Motherboard is the main part of your computer that contains all hardware components. Your computer motherboard could fry, if you do not keep it clean on periodically basis. Dust is the main cause to heat up your system and heat link to hardware failure. You can save your computer maintenance cost if you clean your computer on the regular basis. This will improve the cooling and performance of the motherboard components.

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To clean your motherboard first unplugs your system power from the electrical outlet.
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Using the screwdriver remove the side covers of your computer case and put them to one side.
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Check all data and power cables connections. Inspect all motherboard PCI and AGP slots.
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Remove all add-on card of your motherboard for example RAM, modem, VGA, sound card and LAN card.
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Now blow the air around all the motherboard sides and keeping away your blower nozzle 4 to 5 inches away from main board components. You can use vacuum cleaner also for this purpose but compressed air is the better solution to clean a system.
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At the end assemble back all cards, cables and side covers of your system.
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I recommend you doing this after every three months if you want to save your system life.

Monitor Cleaning Tips

When you noticed your monitor is looking yellowish and its screen to be difficult to read then you can understand about inner side of your monitor as dirty as outside.

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Never place your monitor on the ground, always use computer table or shelf for this purpose.
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First unplugs your monitor power from the electrical outlet.
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Never open the cover of the monitor. First use the compressed air and start clean from back to front of your monitor case.
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Use lightly dampened cloth or spray any cleaning fluids on the monitor body and use paper towel to dry it. Do not spray any fluids near the ventilation hole on the monitor. Use any glass cleaner to clean the monitor screen with soft cotton cloth.

LCD Cleaning Tips

Flat panel monitors are commonly used in mobile devices such as laptop and table PCs. Similarly, smart phones, PDAs calculators have LCD screens. LCD screens are much softer than old CRT screens, so they required extra care as compare to the CRT Monitors.

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First read the LCD manufacturer manual about your LCD model on how to safe and clean it.
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To clean LCD monitor first unplugs your LCD power from the electrical outlet.
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Never use dirty cloth, spray any cleaning fluids on the LCD screen and paper towel to dry it.
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Always use dry cotton cloth to clean the fingerprints and dust on the LCD screen. You can use lightly dampened soft cloth if you feel any difficulty to clean the screen.

Keyboard Cleaning Tips

When the appearance of your computer keyboard is looking dirty, yellowish or some keys creating problem to work properly then you can understand about inner side of your keyboard keys dirty as outside.

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To clean keyboard first shut down your computer then disconnect the keyboard.
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Now use the compressed air with long nozzle and start clean all keys.
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Use lightly dampened cloth or spray any cleaning fluids on the keyboard keys and use paper towel to dry it.
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Try to use any cover of keyboard if you are working in high-dust environments.
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Always be careful to eat or drink around the computer.

Headphones Cleaning Tips

You should clean your headphones on the regular basis because headphones are used by multiple people so that there are chances of spreading germs from one person to another.



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Never leave your headphone in the sunlight because it can damage the magnet of headphone.
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To clean the general area of headphone using lightly dampened cloth or spray any cleaning fluids.
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Always use lightly dampened cloth with warm water to rub the head and earpieces of the headphones.
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You should keep your headphones by hanging on the wall hook.

FLOPPY DRIVE CLEANING

If your Floppy drive create problem during reading or writing floppy disc, taking time to read/write and showing message "Please insert a disc into drive A". These are the symptoms of dirty or weak floppy drive read/write heads. Therefore dirty heads can create errors in reading or writing and soon will not work at all.

Follow the given steps to care and clean a Floppy Drive.

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First make sure your Floppy discs are clean, unscratched and you loaded it properly.
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Always use head cleaning kit to clean drive heads that specially designed to clean the reading/writing heads. Floppy drive cleaning kit consists of cloth disk that can be wetted with a cleaning fluid.
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Using Floppy drive cleaner kit properly to clean the heads from dust. If your drive still creating problem then open it and clean the heads with a cotton swab, but when performing this be careful about head alignment.